Friday Five: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Talks Politics - and Christmas

by Kim Trobee, editor

The former governor and one-time presidential candidate discusses what's going on in the country and tells us about his latest book.

Mike Huckabee is busy these days. The former Arkansas governor has a top-rated show on Fox News, he's talking politics all over the country and, in his spare time, he's written a new book titled A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit. We talked with him about politics and Christmas.

1. What are your thoughts about health care and what's before Congress right now?

It's really disturbing, because it appears that this has become not a battle about making health care more available to people, but about the government becoming more involved in an area of our lives and creating an incredibly large and very expensive government bureaucracy. So, rather than target some specific problems and work on those, this seems to be a Congress that is just determined to spend money until there's nothing left except government control, when it's all over.

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